GAMEBUSTERS

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Last week’s big defensive plays

* COSTA MESA -- Andrew Samford and senior defensive lineman

Rodrigo Gutierrez combine for a 6-yard sack ... Senior outside

linebacker Jeff Waldron strips the ball from the quarterback,

allowing junior cornerback Tony Krikorian to recover, setting up

Mesa’s first touchdown ... Waldron and Krikorian each break up passes

in the second quarter ... Starting junior defensive tackle Juan Diaz

intercepts a fourth-down shovel pass ... Samford sacks quarterback

for a 2-yard loss, forcing a fumble recovered by senior inside

linebacker Randy Fea ... Fea and junior cornerback Evan Hunter tackle

punter for an 8-yard loss on the Santa Ana 1-yard line, setting up a

TD ... Junior linebacker Cameron Wynglarz tackles quarterback for a

3-yard loss ... Senior safety Jamison Morris nearly makes an

interception and later makes a potential touchdown-saving tackle on a

Santa Ana kickoff return ... Senior Bryce Carich sacks quarterback

for 10-yard loss ... Junior Ivan Ruiz causes a receiver to fumble.

* NEWPORT HARBOR -- Senior middle linebacker Thomas Martin returns

an interception 10 yards on the game’s first play ... Martin collars

a running back for a short gain ... Martin stuffs a quarterback

scramble for no gain ... Senior cornerback Matt Erickson holds ideal

defensive position against a would-be receiver on a deep pass that

falls incomplete ... Erickson doesn’t bite on a halfback pass,

staying with a receiver on another incompletion ... Erickson

intercepts and reels off a 23-yard return ... Senior safety Alex Orth

intercepts at his own 10, tapping both toes inbounds as his momentum

carries him beyond the sideline ... Orth breaks up a pass by batting

it down in the secondary ... Jack Tracy and Martin combine on a stop

for no gain ... Erickson returns his second interception 5 yards ...

Martin returns his second interception 25 yards to the Mira Costa 10,

setting up the Tars’ final TD ... Junior safety Tom Jackson nearly

intercepts a deflected pass ... Senior end Saami Khalifian records a

6-yard sack ... Erickson has two more near-interceptions.

* SAGE HILL -- Linemen Morgan Brief and Bryan Forrest combine to

sack the quarterback for an 8-yard loss ... Brief smacks a running

back in the backfield and a host of teammates join in for a loss of 1

... Outside linebacker Bryan Kornsweit runs down a running back at

the line ... Cornerback Keya Manshadi knocks down a fourth-down pass

... Lineman Michael Morgan drills the quarterback to force an

incompletion ... Kornsweit swats down a pass to force an incompletion

... Manshadi knocks down a pass ... On the next play, sophomore

cornerback Braden Ross intercepts a pass ... Manshadi makes a big hit

on a running back for no gain ... Inside linebacker Nick Sohl wraps

up the quarterback to force an intentional-grounding penalty ...

Safety Jamie McGee lowers his shoulder on a running back for a

minimal gain ... Forrest stuffs a run for no gain on fourth-and-one

... Lineman Joe Puishys sacks quarterback for an 11-yard loss.

* ESTANCIA -- Outside linebacker Ryan Sanford knocks down a pass

... Cornerback Geo Macias closes on a receiver to hold the play to a

minimal gain ... Macias intercepts a pass and races 71 yards for a

touchdown ... Linebacker Mike Courtney sacks the quarterback for a

5-yard loss ... Linebacker D.J. Lepper recovers a fumble on the

Garden Grove 32 ... Linebacker Bryce McKendry strips the ball from a

running back and Daniel Cheesboro recovers ... End Tim Bassler hits

the quarterback, but it is McKendry who takes down the QB for a

5-yard loss ... Lineman Ian Morton grabs the quarterback by the

jersey and swings him to the ground for a 1-yard sack ... Linebacker

Clayton Mills tackles the punter for a 16-yard loss to set up an

Estancia TD ... McKendry strips a running back and linebacker Dave

Moreno recovers on the Garden Grove 27 to set up an Estancia TD ...

Mills stuffs a run for a 3-yard loss.